Glyn W Humphreys was born in 1954. He is currently Professor of cognitive Psychology at Birmingham University, Birmingham, England.

His main interests lie in visual cognition, particularly visual attention, shape and object recognition, and the linkage between perception and action.

In recent years with access to improved imaging facilities he has been a leading figure in the field of visual brain mapping, relating cognitive models to brain activity using PET and functional MRI scanning

Humphreys, G. W. & Riddoch, M. J. (1995) The old town no longer looks the same: The effects of brain damage on the computation of visual similarity. In C. Cacciari (Ed.), Similarity in Language, Thought and Perception. San Marino: Brepols.

Mumtaz, S. & Humphreys, G. W. (2001) Effects of bilingualism on learning to read English: Evidence from the contrast between Urdu-English bilingual and English monolingual children. Journal of Research in Reading, 24, 113-134.

Humphreys, G. W. (1984) Shape constancy: Changing the orientation of the principal axis can be more detrimental than changing the relative positions of local features. Perception & Psychophysics, 36, 50-64.